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If you're suggesting "ai" can create something I disagree as I think anyone with a cursory understanding of what a LLM is would agree. Given they can only regurgitate what they have been shown, and often verbatim, it is clearly a different circumstance than a human taking inspiration from...

An artist copying another artist is illegal as is other copying ie t-shirts and logos without express permission and or licensing. There is a difference between taking inspiration and copying work in almost all instances. There are exceptions for satire, education science... When it comes to...

As long as needed for the proper change to occur, it's just a little code and some licensing to sort it out. The TTRPG space went the better part of 50 years without it, I challenge you or anyone to provide an argument that doesn't distill down to laziness and blatant disregard for the people...

To me the onus is on the LLM's scraping the web to teach the models, and that was the time to address it, as they are the ones both changing/upsetting the status quo, whilst profiting from it simultaneously. If they were good stuards of the new technology they are bringing forth they...

I can see where it has use, especially in games at private tables, and in areas like academia. It is at the commercial area I take serious exceptions both on ethical grounds, and lesser so why would I pay for "ai" generated content when I could just steal it myself if I was going to use such...

I don't recall saying it is useless, if i did please show where and I will address it. There are many many things that are useful that are illegal, immoral, and/or wrong in life most of which are inappropriate to discuss on a forum such as this for good reason. Generative "ai" is not in good...

Fair enough, but this ties back to the best tasting poison analogy, it is philosophical by nature and as such is more of an "eye of the beholder" discussion which comes down to what an individual can personally accept and self justify the theft vs any benefit gaind from it's use. I.e. can...

The OP was WOTC specific, so commercial thus piracy being illegal is a part of the OP discussion. The poll brought ethics into the OP, so ethics have been a part of the OP discussion. That said I stand by my post in it's entirety, but do agree with Morrus' post above about thread drift.

Leaving the ethics (piracy) out of a discussion about LLM's aka "ai" is like discussing which deadly poisons taste the best. Does it really matter how good they taste unless you (the general you, not you specifically) want to slip one in someone's pie, and if you do why shoud we be discussing...

I believe your example needs more context before we can determine if they are in fact opinions. To piggyback your example, let's substitute Santa for the earth. Just because you know Santa isn't real doesn't give you the right to destroy a child's illusion because they are wrong does it? If...

Didn't I, weather he likes it or not it goes with the job, kinda like cops being expected to deal with upset and nasty verbal citizens. It goes with the territory and they are paid for dealing with it. Whether they negotiated appproiate compensation is up to them. The game has 50 years of...

Nice take on my explanation. To boil it down, using facts to bully someone's opinion just isn't cool. Not everyone that voices an opinion is looking for a debate. Opinions are not right or wrong, they just exist.

Which fans? Catering can be profitable, but only when it is isolated. When it gets too isolated we get into gatekeeping don't we?

Honestly if we are comparing opinions facts, to my way of thinking, are only relevant if you are trying to force your opinion on someone or they are trying to force their's on you. Though at that point are they really opinions anymore?

I call it 5.5 also, though i see it less of a jump than 3e to 3.5e, but that is my subjective view. Still 5.5, to me is little more than errata printed and bound into new books much like Monsters of the Multiverse just with more art and fanfare. It just seems so unnecessary in so many ways...

How is that better than or different than what we were doing with the 5e rules? My point being 5.5e is not much more than a few house rules codified and the majority of the problems shifted to other places in the rules. IE, what good are the new rules outside of organized play like AL, or open...

How often has he responded to such queries? I seem to recall he had all bit distanced him self from making rulings. Weather he likes it or not it goes with the job. He knew that going in and was paid to deal with it. As have everyone who preceded him did and will everyone that follows him will...

Fair, but is this any better than 5e, or just turning boiled potato cubes into mashed potatoes?

Sorry, the complications are not tied to the NPC stuff directly, just a tie in to the rearrangement and misdirection of not actually fixing things.